Shakira Quotes

I believe I've got to speak up for my people.

I will keep speaking for my people.

We must stand up and do everything we can for the people who do not have a voice.

Look, yes, I'm a Muslim woman and I want to bring my community to the table, but I also want to make sure that I'm not being tokenized.

I believe Native Americans, women, and all of us deserve representation, and that we all need to fight with everything we have to make it so.

I want to represent Asian women.

As a gay man, I think the role of culture is central to how you change politics - culture is politics.

I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.

I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people.

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it right.

My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.

I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.

I have always felt my role was to do anything I could to enable the powerless to speak. I want America to hear these voices because they are beautiful voices.

Our party has always been the voice of the powerless and the voiceless.

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.

Speak up for the people that nobody speaks for.

Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs [Blacks] which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

I do feel a responsibility to try and raise awareness and to help tell the stories of those who may not otherwise have a voice.

I hope that a lot of the men and women who feel forgotten in this country really see that they have in me a champion.

I represent opportunities for other women and other people of color, and I'm trying to start my own kind of movement.

I want to represent all the Latin people. I want to do this for the rest of my life.

We all had to dodge the idea we were spokespeople for our races. Like, 'Hey, it's the Mexican Guy! The Filipino! The Chick!' We've always stood up to it and said, 'Fine, bring it on and we'll show you how we rock.'